Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Fisher Center, Bard Music Festival, and TŌN are collaborating to bring live music back to our community audiences. Please consider supporting this free program at http://bit.ly/support-the-performing-..., text FISHER to 56525, or call us at 845-758-7900 to donate.
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"Out of the Silence” opens with two works by the great William Grant Still. The first African-American to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra, and the subject of a 2009 retrospective curated and conducted by Botstein at Lincoln Center, Still is represented by his meditative miniature Out of the Silence, from Seven Traceries and the evocative tone poem Serenade.*
*These works are not included in the archival recording due to copyright restrictions.
Program One also features a piece by one of Nadia Boulanger’s many distinguished students: the elegiac Lyric for Strings by George Walker, the first African-American winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music and “one of the greatest composers of our time” (Fanfare magazine).
The concert concludes with TŌN’s account of the exuberant String Symphony No. 8 by Felix Mendelssohn, subject of the Bard Music Festival’s second season in 1991.
The Fisher Center, Bard Music Festival, and TŌN are collaborating to bring live music back to our community audiences. Please consider supporting this free program at http://bit.ly/support-the-performing-..., text FISHER to 56525, or call us at 845-758-7900 to donate.
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"Out of the Silence” opens with two works by the great William Grant Still. The first African-American to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra, and the subject of a 2009 retrospective curated and conducted by Botstein at Lincoln Center, Still is represented by his meditative miniature Out of the Silence, from Seven Traceries and the evocative tone poem Serenade.*
*These works are not included in the archival recording due to copyright restrictions.
Program One also features a piece by one of Nadia Boulanger’s many distinguished students: the elegiac Lyric for Strings by George Walker, the first African-American winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music and “one of the greatest composers of our time” (Fanfare magazine).
The concert concludes with TŌN’s account of the exuberant String Symphony No. 8 by Felix Mendelssohn, subject of the Bard Music Festival’s second season in 1991.
![Final Two Weekends at the Spiegeltent! [2019]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NXBv-2cXx1s/mqdefault.jpg "Final Two Weekends at the Spiegeltent! [2019]
Final Two Weekends at the Spiegeltent! [2019]")
